Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

棋: chess piece, Japanese chess

Also: shogi

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 其 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

キki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 将棋しょうぎshogi; Japanese chess
  • 棋聖きせいgreat master of go; great master of shogi
  • 棋士きしprofessional shogi player
  • 棋院きいんgo institution; go club; go hall
  • 棋風きふうone's style of playing shogi or go
  • 棋譜きふrecord of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.

Also read ご, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
More in the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

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其

Also built on 其

棋 takes the 其 family's reading, キ (ki).

Also read キ

55 kanji share this on'yomiAll 55

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
棋 chess piece · 木
vs期 period · 月
棋 has 木 where 期 has 月.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qí

Same form: 棋 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
棋 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
棋 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin qí most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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